Walking Paris with Henry Miller

Paris in the winter had all the stark angles of bare sycamores and gray steeples, but we found it welcoming and friendly. So crucial to Miller during the Depression, food became our main preoccupation, being only a few blocks from the markets of Rue Montorgueil. The waiters at the cafés were polite and engaging, appreciating our juvenile forays into their language. We saw a ballet, a play at the Comedie Francaise, three cemeteries, ten churches, and a dozen museums.

The story of Jack Kahane, founder of The Obelisk Press, which published Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn, as well as ground-breaking works by D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce and others has never been told in full. It is a treat then to discover that a new and thorough work on [...]

As these walking tours have developed I’ve tried several different mapping solutions with mixed success. The latest was to add embedded Google maps at the end of each post. These are convenient, but greatly slow down the loading of pages. So now I’m trying something new with Google maps. Using the recently added “My Maps” [...]

A new book explores the history of Le Select, one of Montparnasse's most prominent artistic cafés and a regular hangout for Henry Miller in the 1930's.